Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Check out this Vintage Typewriter!!! I found this little baby at a yard sale...for $10.00!

Isn't it just the COOLEST thing? I have been looking for one just like this for a while but was not willing to pay the price... glad I waited! I have NO clue if it works, some of the keys get stuck because if you can see it has aLITTLE rust. I will clean it up and if it works great and if it doesn't well....that's fine with me.

Friday, July 15, 2011

I am so excited to share a recipe I came across atThe Bee Hive Cottage . I LOVEthat I can make my own detergent!! I have included pictures of the supplies I used because after reading the recipe I had to google some of the ingredients because I had no idea what they were...lol

Here is a picture of the container I use for my detergent...I found this at Restoration Hardware years ago and I LOVE how it looks sitting on my dryer.

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

We are celebrating my mother-in-law's birthday in August and I am in charge of the decorations. I decided that my theme would be "Shades of Blue" since this is her favorite color. My mother-in-law also loves her flower garden so I am creating flowers to use as center pieces on each of the guests tables.

I ordered the new "Flower Shoppe" Cricut cartridge and it arrived today...

This is the Daisy and it is cut at 10"...

I then took it and scrunched it up...

﻿then I rolled it up and used my glue gun to adhere it together...

now what I did was use the negative of the die cut to make a small rose...

you may be familiar with the MFT rolled flower dies, well this works the same way but what I like is that I can make them as small or as large as I need

Sunday, July 10, 2011

I enjoy visiting a cute little Thrift Shop which supports our local animal shelter and sometimes I find the cutest things. I found an entire bag of wooden spools (195 to be exact) for $4.00... not sure what I will create with these cuties but I HAD to have them! For now I think they look cute in this glass jar I picked up at walmart.